CHAPTER NINE
The news of the capture of Adolf Eichmann by a team of Mossad and Shin Bet agents in a suburb of Buenos Aires was broadcast on May 11, 1960. "The Mossad agents had arrived in Buenos Aires in April 1960 after Eichmann's identity was confirmed. After observing Eichmann extensively, the Mossad agents waited for him as he arrived home from his work as foreman at a Mercedes Benz factory," etc. The Mossad had not yet become famous. Now they became a household name, as did Eichmann’s, and Hannah Arendt’s aphorism, "The banality of evil."
Elsbeta returned from shopping, turned on the news and turned it off and put away forsythia branches in a glass vase. Her life fell into two halves, before the war and after. The bridge between the two was gone. No explanation. Kenneth would be hom
